Tweet 13/06/2014 11:41 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll We're filming this lecture for YouTube so watch this space! 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:44 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll In the history of Rock and Roll, did White America provide anything? 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:46 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Music from The Hills - white music had the same four chords. Hank Williams dressed as a cowboy. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:47 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Next to the black music, Hanks Williams' music sounded very 'sweet'. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:50 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Authenticity and fakery - Hank wrote to sell records to white people. Black music was authentic experiences. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:51 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll After WWII, teenagers were 'invented' in America. Manufactured primarily by US marketing. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:52 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Young white Americans started to hear the music by people such as Ray Charles. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:54 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "Chuck Berry was arguably the first musician to use an electric guitar" 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:59 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Elvis was not the first white 'rock and roller'. Bill Haley was. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:00 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "Rock around the Clock" was a huge hit 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:01 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Everyone who bought it was over 40. The advertising executives missed their target market. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:03 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll All Elvis Presley songs were written for him. He managed to marry the black tradition with the white tradition. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014